I haven’t heard of any disc game not being able to be played.
There’s a number of games that don’t come with the whole thing on disk/cart, usually including only the early stages and the rest needs to be downloaded.
Hogwarts Legacy and Jedi Survivor are two fairly recent examples.
The only question I have is what’s gonna happen as game discs are just becoming an access token to download the game and its updates.
That’s a big concern. There’s communities trying to document which games are complete on the media and can be played from start to end without updates (so no major game-breaking bugs or huge performance issues) like this one:
I’m also part of a FB group that collects cartridge information for Switch games, to document if there’s revisions with all updates included.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CEABCBrPv1tWf89hSZqUunK0JW-sQo8XpxuvZhdtHQs/edit#gid=0
There’s also the problem that they’re clearly rushing this without much thought, they don’t even have an answer to the obvious question of “what happens to people in regions not supported by PSN”.
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The developer is involved. Though it’s pretty obvious that the push for this is from Sony, they are the publisher for the game.
So if it were clearly written on the Steam page, I don’t really get the complains.
It was optional for several months and the info on the PSN page contradicted that, so there was a lot of room for confusion.
Not surprisingly that PSN page was edited earlier today, but there’s a million screenshots floating around already, plus you can check the previous version in the Wayback Machine.
And even if it was clearly written on all places, it’s still a “too bad you didn’t read the fine print, now you’re past the limit time for a refund, so either let Sony track you or lose access to the game” situation which is very shitty. There’s also the fact that they sold the game to people in countries where is PSN is not available, which should not have happened if that requirement was going to be enforced in the future.
Not hard to see why people would get pissed and lose trust in the developer. I also think that players have been annoyed for a while with this type of requirement (not specifically in this game), and they are now getting a good outlet with a lot of publicity around to vent about it.
The review chart is hilarious.
Doubt Sony or the developer expected this would happen.
Edit [May/04, 14h UTC]: Updated chart. More than 70k negative reviews already.
I’d argue it’s the opposite, EO games have so many interesting builds to try that they’re among the most replayable dungeon crawler games.
For me too, but noticeably slower than normal.
If you have access to a PS4 or Nintendo Switch: 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
A crazy and interesting sci-fi game, mixes point-and-click adventure with tower defense action stages. Story is amazing and I absolutely love Vanillaware’s 2D art.
According to the DF review vídeo the account is required on PS/Xbox unless you’re offline, but entirely optional on the Switch.
It’s discussed around 15min into the video.
That one was so good.
Haven’t played this game in decades but instantly started hearing the song in my head when I saw your post.
Probably Metroid Prime. Both the Title Theme and the Menu Theme are fantastic.
Xenoblade games also have brilliant title themes. Here’s the one for the first game.
Now, for some spice, let’s branch into a type of game I think most people here won’t have played - Visual Novels often have great title themes.
I read some chapters from the manga, it’s one of those “popular girl x unpopular guy” stories. Slightly better than the usual because the MC leans towards “capable yet unmotivated” rather than “bland”.
I’d say give it the usual 3-episode trial if you enjoy this genre.
Livechart.me can usually help find out which streaming service has the series in you region.
https://www.livechart.me/anime/2483
This one in particular I think is in Hidive, and they aren’t available in a lot of regions. :/
And I just found out they got Aoi Yuki as Maomao’s VA! Getting even more hyped now.
Still on Trails into Reverie.
Long game is long, but I got some good progress this week. Reached the final chaper, did the whole intial section and I’m now free to explore Crossbell while preparing for what I assume is the final dungeon.
However, there’s a ton of extra content that I want to clear before moving on, so I’m now rotating between:
But I think I’ll finally be able to beat the game during this next week. Which would be good because I got two VNs coming from Play-Asia and looking at the tracking information they should arrive soon.
Edit: Also just found out there’s a free book for this game with the backstories of two of the new characters. It’s available in-game and also on the official website. I just finished converting so I can read this on the Kindle, which honestly sounds like it was worth the effort since it turned out to be even longer than I expected, almost 100 pages!
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Exactly, it’s hard to have all games be bangers when there’s more than 10 of them already. But even the “worst” games are still a “B” in my opinion.
And I’m hearing very positive things about the next two (Kuro + Kuro 2) who were already released in Japan, hopefully won’t be long before we get them in the west.
Either saving on media costs (25GB disc instead of 100GB disc, maybe 1 disc instead of 2 if the game is too big), or even having more time to work on the game.
Developer makes sure the early stages are properly tested, send the disc for manufacturing including only those, use the manufacturing time to tweak/bugfix/optimize more stuff the rest of the game.